Last night’s show was great for many reasons, not least of which because of all the auditioners who showed up to play. Thanks guys for coming out! And thank you to the non-auditioning audience members who laughed a lot and made the night grand.
Tonight’s festivities began with a “Yes, and…That’s How It’s Done” about mirroring. And once again, Adam and Ben proved that they are funny even when teaching a lesson. Jimmy gave us some stories for Inspiring Minds about leisure. Oh, btw, if anyone knows where I can get a dumpster, that would be swell. I’ll invite you to swim in the pool when it’s done.
We warmed up the audience and ourselves with a fantastic game of What Are You Doing? Cam thinks that modern weapons include a light saber. Methinks someone has seen Star Wars one too many times. The game ended with Jimmy proclaiming that, “This video game is awesome!” And yes, the video game was awesome.
Adam ran Alphabet, and people were creating scenes and impressing even a wordy chick like me. Though, Adam, I have to protest. X-mas starts with an X. Not E. Don’t ding that bell! And the winner for the most creative sentence starting with X goes to Ken. “Xenon gas is seeping through the court!” Ken and I almost got through the alphabet in 60 seconds, but sadly a momentary miscommunication prevented us from triumphing.
Our last game of the first half, Shopkeeper, was a lesson in literalism and not overthinking. Adam as the shopkeeper managed to figure out the Dan had a firehose that shot fire, “My wife is pissed!”, Cam got stuck with a shot glass that actually shot people, “Half of my fraternity brothers are dead! , and Jimmy was returning a colander made of cheese, “I thought it was American, but it’s Swiss made!”
After a moment to catch a breath (not outside. Apparently the weather is stuck between sauna and surface of the sun.), the second half opened with a kinetic and fast-paced game of freeze. The t-shirt gun from What Are Your Doing? reappeared and the Inspiring Minds’ story about the blow darts provided fodder for several scenes.
We played two rounds of Movie Critics. Ben and Ken (okay, that’s adorable) were Steve and Tony hosting Boom! That’s a Movie. Jimmy and Joe played a football player and his adoring Shoelace Townie. Ben and Ken, excuse me, Steve and Tony had my favorite one-two punch of the scene. Ben: Did anyone else recognize Sean Penn in all that prosthetic makeup?” Ken: “I thought it was Brian Bosworth.”
Adam and Cam criticized…I mean created a movie for Ray and me called “Fatten Up.” And a better or more confusing spaghetti western has never been seen. Besides dealing with modern technology in the old west, we didn’t even get to eat spaghetti. We were stuck with penne. Ray got the line of the game with his, “We’ve been here in peace!” and we did come in peace!
Blank Walks into a Bar, and everyone laughs. The night ended with a line-up of funny jokes and puns and groaners. Come and see the show, and you can be part of the fun. You won’t regret it.
